1. I will fall in love with a nerd boy who wears glasses and has eyelashes long enough to touch the lenses. He knows things I don't and secretly loves Gossip Girl. He reads Harry Potter to the kids as a bedtime story, because fairy tales are for suckers. He drinks his coffee with way too much sugar and not enough milk. He can't leave the house while the bed is unmade. He lets our daughter paint his face with eye shadow and lipstick and doesn't complain when it takes forever to wash off. He insists our son takes up archery because 1. It's badass and 2. It looks cool in the movies. He hates the colour our bedroom is painted and not-so-discreetly steers us towards the paint section whenever we go to a hardware store. He doesn't snore but he takes forever to fall asleep. He can talk about anything and everything, and everybody loves him.
2. I will fall in love with a musician, one with piercings and tattoos and black hair that he covers up with a beanie. He plays guitar and has a voice like gravel. He terrified my parents at first (He showed up to dinner on his motorcycle) but they love him now. He drinks iced tea like it's a religion, and he leaves the bottles everywhere. Our son collects the caps and nails them to the walls of his tree house. He convinced me to dye my hair cherry red, and now I get dirty looks from the mothers when I pick the kids up from school. He is constantly chewing straws, because he destroyed too many guitar picks with that stupid habit. The first photo of us together was taken at an All Time Low concert, and it's sitting in a black frame on our bedside table. He bought our daughter a pair of tiny combat boots to wear with her tutus, and she loves them. Last week she asked if she could get a lip piercing "Just like daddy's".
3. I will fall in love with a shy boy, the one who goes unnoticed at the back of the classroom. He asked me on our first date by leaving a note in my bag, and couldn't look me in the eyes for the first half hour. The kids are constantly trying to trick him into drinking anything with caffeine in it, because he goes hyper and laughs too much. They laugh more. He takes them ice skating and makes fun of me sitting on the bleachers because of my lack of balance. Once he filled the bath up with twenty packets of jelly mix (It took two days to set) and let the kids play in it. Their skin was tinted purple for a week. He doesn't talk much, but that works since I never shut up.
4. I will fall in love with a sporty boy. He was an arrogant prick in highschool, but a few years later we ran into each other and I stupidly agreed to a date. He paces when he's angry and messes up his hair. Our son broke his wrist after he got pushed over in a game of soccer last month. There is a figure eight worn into the floor from that night. He is always wearing sweat pants. He loves doughnuts, and our kids have tried every kind there is as a result. Our daughter loves jelly doughnuts almost as much as he does. She always gets jam on her face, and he laughs at her little frown when he won't tell her where it is. He loves action movies, but he will watch Barbie movies with her if she pokes out her bottom lip. We got married four years ago and he still has no idea how to braid hair.
5. I will fall in love with a mysterious boy, with hair to his shoulders and a terrible smoking habit. He has tattoos of Celtic symbols on his biceps and he practices playing poker with our sons. He keeps it covered, but he got both of the boy's names tattooed on his left ankle. He swears a lot, but never at us. Our eldest's first word was "Fuck." I don't know why he was so surprised. He laughed for five minutes while our baby clapped his hands. He makes cookies for the boy's to take to school. Once our youngest came home and told us that some kid had stolen his cookies. He got up and walked out the front door silently, and we got a written apology from the kid the next day.
6. I will fall in love with my best friend, the boy with the soft brown eyes and contagious smile. We met in a bar two months after we graduated high school and were inseparable for years until he kissed me one new years eve. He is God-awful at mini golf and so is our son. He buys our daughter headbands and bows, and spends hours playing dress up with her. He loves playing The Tooth Fairy (he leaves notes and glittery footprints for the kids to find) but he always makes me organize Santa and Easter Bunny stuff, since his brothers ruined both for him. He has a falling-to-pieces copy of The Great Gatsby, and it never leaves his bedside. It has a set of teeth marks on one corner from when our son was teething. He loves board games, but he always lets the kids win.
I will never meet these people. But I can't wait to try.
